This is not just a book about a wolf named White Fang. It is a universal story about life, loyalty, cruelty, kindness, and, most importantly, love. Since the story is written in the perspective of third person limited, the reader is able to see the world as White Fang sees it. You feel what he feels. You hear what he thinks. You understand his natural impulses in a way that feels unique and familiar all at the same time. As I watched White Fang grow up and explore the wild world around him, I wa...

Read when I was a child. I remember I wanted a husky afterwards even though I was not a big fan of dogs.

I missed this as a child not sure why given my love for call of the wild. My guess is my librarian mother withheld it because the animal cruelty would have probably upset a younger me since it did an older me. There's alot of trigger warning for White Fang. Violence toward animal is no laughing matter. but it is told to suit a purpose. the opening scene of a wolf pack hunting a sled team. Taking one dog after another and even one human until ran off is very vivid. The wolf-dog White Fang is a vi...

What a captivating literary work!I am SO grateful to have read this adventurous novel by Jack London. Beware, some passages are certainly not for the faint hearted! Look who is talking! I weeped when reading those passages looking at my dog at times, who enjoys having his loved ones around him 24/7 nowadays, dozing off and giving me an awkward look tilting his head to one side. So, let me start off my review by giving you the core message of this novel that resonated 100% with me: Human beings a...

“The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.” The wolfdog known as White Fang has had a difficult life.Cruel companions, cruel owners and a cruel world shaped him into what he is - violent, distrustful and aching for something he knows not.When he finally stumbles into the hands of a kind master, he is completely thrown.The world as he knows it is bleak and cold but the new master? He holds the spark of warmth that White Fang so desperately craves.But after a lif...

I first read White Fang around the age of eleven or twelve. I think that's about right, but I'm not exactly certain. I do know that I read it soon after finishing London's other famous novel, The Call of the Wild. That first book, about a dog who's stolen and put into a life of hardship, would have been my favorite of the two at the time. It remains so, but the gap between them is not so wide now. What I don't recall realizing as a kid was how these two books, one about a dog, the other about a ...

I think I am one of the few who did not have this book as required reading in school.White Fang chronicles the harsh realities of life. When this book begins, two men and trying to bring back the body of a third using their dog sled team. There has been a lack of food and night by night one of their dogs go missing. Finally, they see the culprit - a she wolf who is luring their dogs away. Food is scarce, and she is part of a wolf pack trying to survive. Soon the men are being hunted by the wolve...

White Fang, Jack London’s 1906 companion (and thematic mirror) story to his classic The Call of the Wild begins with an archetypal London setting, a scene of desperate survival in a harsh, cruel environment. Following the growth of a hybrid wolf-dog as he grows and fights and survives in the frozen north, White Fang embodies and demonstrates many of the common themes of London’s work such as survival of the fittest, isolation from society, and a primitive naturalism. In the spirit of Joseph Conr...

Can an animal part wolf, part dog, be rehabilitated and become a domestic pet? The exact opposite of, another Jack London novel, The Call of the Wild. So the premise is, in White Fang. A runaway former Indian bred she- wolf, Kiche, along with forty odd others, in a wolf pack, are following three men on a dog sled, two still alive. Famine grips the territory in the Yukon, during the Klondike Gold Rush, Canada, just before the start of the Twentieth Century . The wild animals are starving, literal...

I was reminded of Diana, the Huntress with her lop-eared hounds driving her chariot and her nymphs as her hunting companions when I read this book. And it is as that Goddess that I accompanied the wolf White Fang (the only survivor out of a litter of five puppies), on his incredible journey through life. I was the hidden onlooker basking in all the trials and tribulations that overcame him, be it through periods of famine, extreme brutality by human beings, his necessity and desire to hunt and t...